Intra-actions. Uriel Fogué

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ABSTRACT CONFERENCE

Library

General public, Professionals

27 February 2025

Intra-actions with Uriel Fogué.

In its latest reports, the United Nations Environment Programme calls for a "rapid transformation of societies" to address the climate crisis. In them, architecture is identified as one of the basic fields of action where a possible ecological collapse is at stake.

What can we do?

Inaction is not an option. Architecture must shift from its usual positions. This lecture will present four shifts that, we believe, reposition architectural practice within an ecological framework.

Uriel Fogué

Doctor of Architecture (extraordinary award UPM 2015, finalist X BIAU 2016). Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Columbia University. Was visiting teacher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Co-directs the architecture office elii, which was part of the Spanish Pavilion at the 18th and 15th Venice Architecture Biennales (the latter, Golden Lion 2016). Among other international recognitions, it has two works selected in the European Union Prize For Contemporary Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe Award (2015, 2019) and one work awarded the Golden Prize Holcim Awards 2023 (together with Husos and Ultrazul, promoted by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation). His work Yojigen Poketto was selected as one of the 20 visionary domestic spaces of the last 100 years in the exhibition 'Home Stories 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors', Vitra Design Museum (2020). He is co-founder of the Crisis Cabinet of Political Fictions.

Information

Opening hours: 7:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of activity: Design and Architecture
Modality: At the museum

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Program to which it belongs

The architecture table

General public ... , 29.01.2015 - 17.12.2026

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century. They range from the so-called avant-gardes to all the approaches and artistic manifestations that took place in the decades of the second half of the past century. They are expressed on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. In turn, the temporary exhibitions are related to these collections and allow for expanding or deepening some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, contemporary architecture is absent from both the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations.The architecture of the MACA itself, a project created and directed by the Sancho Madridejos Studio, is a beautiful building of great functional efficiency. The syncopated projection of horizontal and vertical spaces establishes a formal order based on the geometry and texture of the materials used in construction, while revealing a kind of tension resolved by the overhead passage of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.The MACA proposes in a conversational format, meetings around art and architecture around the architect's table. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from January to May 2015.This first cycle will consist of different manifestations. The first and fundamental one will show works by an architect related through his vital and professional activity to the province of Alicante. The selection criterion will be conditioned by the modernity of the proposals, understanding that modernity, first of all, in a chronological sense, attending to those architectures and architects who were protagonists and participants in the advent of contemporaneity. The exhibition of some models will allow for offering three-dimensional models, reclaiming the model as such, as the authors of the Renaissance defended. And to illustrate the complete work process, sketches and preliminary drawings will be shown alongside the project plans and notes developed during the construction process. All of this with the ultimate aim of understanding and grasping in some way the constructed space.The architect's table, a table from 1912, real and present (deposited in the MACA by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán), serves as an ideological foundation to link the exhibitions and will serve as the material support for the models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space.

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